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'Miracle' continues
Reedley Drama Club
The Reedley Exponent B12 Thursday, December 7, 2017
Reedley's River City Theatre Company continues its presentation of "Miracle on 34th Street" on Thursday, Dec. 7, at the historic Reedley Opera House. Other run dates are Dec. 8-10 and Dec. 14-17.
The play is based on the classic 1947 movie of the same name that starred Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne and a young natalie Wood. It all centers around a man who says his name is Kris Kringle – is he the real Santa Claus?
ABOVE: HeatherPrice(left)playsDoris Walker. In the center is Tessa Figueroa as her daughter, Susan, and (at right) is Joseph Hill as Fred Gailey.
RIGHT: Larry Ham portrays Kris Kringle and is seen here with Tessa Figueroa.
For showtimes, tickets or other informa- tion, go online to reedleyrivercitythe- atre.org or call (559) 638-6500. Tickets also can be purchased at David's, 1034 G St.
Reedley's River City Theatre Company / Photos Contributed
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The Reedley Drama Club welcomed Roy Oken, CEO of Wonder Valley Ranch Resort, to the group’s november meeting. Oken (seen in this photo) shared a history of the resort and its area, starting with the Yokut and Choinumni Indians who lived in the area. In 1911, he said George and Vanessa Pierson purchased 1,600 acres in the area to raise cattle, and the site became the first dude ranch in California.Theranch’smuseumincludesphotos fromthe1950sofGeorgePiersonwithcelebrities, such as Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
A number of the structures still are in use today. In 1973, Stan Oken, Roy’s father and a former Fresno County supervisor, became the sole owner of Wonder Valley Ranch. The site today operates as a resort and conference center.
It began as a children’s camp, then expanded to add adult activities and other functions. The facil- ity’s history includes American gymnast star Cathy Rigby running a gymnastics camp there for five years, andtheU.S.Olympiccyclingteamtrainingthereforfiveyears.Theranchdrewnationalat- tention when children from the Soviet Union came there. After that, 13 other countries wanted to send children to the ranch. The ranch also for years has hosted camps for children who have suffered burn injuries.
Roy Oken, a Fresno State graduate, has served on the board for what’s now called the Fresno/Clovis Convention and Visitors Bureau and is a past president for the ambassador branch of the Reedley Lions Club. He also is a team-building facilitator and has run leadership seminars for corporate groups.
Fresno Pacific offers musical events
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Fresno Pacific Universi- ty is presenting two concerts at the campus this week.
The first is a Musica Pa- cifica Orchestra concert on Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Mc- Donald Hall Atrium at the university, 1717 S. Chestnut
Ave. in Fresno.
The second event is a Pa-
cific Bronze concert. It will be held in the Ashley Audito- rium at the university.
Both concerts will start at 7:30 p.m.
General admission for each event is $5; free to
members of the FPU com- munity (including alumni cardholders). Admission is payable at the door.
For more information, send an email to music@ fresno.edu or call the Fresno Pacific music office at (559) 453-2267.
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reset them often and avoid reusing passwords. Also, cre- ate passwords that have a minimum of eight characters and include upper case letters, numbers and characters in the password.
• Safeguard passwords – for example, never leave a password written on a sticky note or slip of paper and then attach it to a device.
For school districts, keep- ing their student information systems protected is the ut- most priority.
If cyber criminals can suc- cessfully encrypt a system, they can lock it up and make their move. Edmonds de- scribed it this way: “Once they feel like they have enough in- formation, they push the but- ton and ‘Boom,’ they just take the entire network down. And, then they send you the email: ‘We want X amount.’ It can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.”
Edmonds said that KCUSD can thwart these attempts “rather easily” be- cause of how the district maintains its backup systems.
In this age of internet use and social media, all users need to be more savvy about what they access – and what’s trying to access them.
For example, Edmonds said a prevalent source of infiltration are phishing at- tacks. This happens when you receive an email that seems legitimate because it looks like it’s coming from someone you know. It may ask you to click on a link and reset your password or seek other in- formation. That provides the gateway for hackers to install malware into computer sys- tems.
KCUSD uses six “risk management” tools to pro- tect its system. One is called CDW, which is assessing the strength of KCUSD’s de- fenses. The company will re- port to the district on what it finds. Edmonds said they are doing this “to make sure that we have the highest level of security as I can get.”
Trustee Noel Remick
asked about the possible use in the future of security mea- sures, such as facial recogni- tion and fingerprint recogni- tion. He also wondered how many times KCUSD had been compromised.
Edmonds said there was one episode, after he first joined KCUSD, that involved a virus impacting the district in 2006. Nothing on that scale has happened since. Issues, when they occur, involve indi- vidual accounts and are fixed.
One reason there are few- er incidents, Edmonds said, is that people are much more aware of what not to do.
Trustee Connie Brooks said that she had just read about these type of cyber in- cidents. In light of Edmonds’ report, she said: “We are re- ally on it.”
Edmonds replied that while these issues are not new, they are becoming more prevalent: “Education is the No. 1 target right now, so we have to step it up.”
'Zoo Lights' are back at Chaffee Zoo
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Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s popular holiday event “Zoo Lights” is back for 2017.
The Fresno zoo, located in Roeding Park, transforms the entire zoo into “a magical winter wonderland, fully dec- orated and strung with miles of holiday lights,” according to its website.
The remaining dates are
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inspiring.”
“By elevating academic
experiences and support- ing graduate research, we are opening new opportu- nities for our students to grow into the next gen- eration of medical profes-
Dec. 8-10, Dec. 15-23, and Dec. 26-30.
“Zoo Lights” includes live entertainment and treats and beverages.
Visitors also can have their pictures taken for free with Santa Claus (except Santa won’t be available Dec. 26-30).
Visitors also can pur- chase holographic glasses
sionals and scientists and to be more prepared for the job market after graduation and beyond,” Castro said.
“This investment aligns with Fresno State’s strategic
for $2 each.
The zoo admission price
for Chaffee Zoo members is $7 adults; $5 for children ages 2 to 11. Tickets for non- members are $9 for adults; $7 for children ages 2 to 11. Children who are 1 year old or younger get in free.
For more information, go online to fresnochaffeezoo. org.
direction to enhance teach- ing and learning opportu- nities for our students and to remove barriers toward achieving the dream of a higher education,” he said.
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